Collaboration with M1™

Collaborate spontaneously and without limitation.

Technology is a team sport. Frequently the waveforms and the needed skill sets aren't in the same place at the same time. M1 is the only solution with built-in tools that enable fully-explorable waveforms - not just a screenshot and an inexpertly-worded email - to be transferred immediately to the right team members or business partners. They don't have to be in the lab or in front of the instrument to collaborate.

M1 can deliver rich collaboration because there are numerous ground-breaking capabilities built into it. You will likely never see these capabilities from ScopeCo because they literally fly in the face of their business objectives. For example:

Instant collaboration

ScopeCo seems stuck in the idea that manually sending a screenshot of the waveform, along with a few comments that may or may not be meaningful or coherent, constitutes useful collaboration. We... disagree.

That's why M1 supports the ability to send waveforms via email or FTP from within M1. With the click of a button, your coworker halfway around the world and your boss two rooms over can be exploring the same waveform that you are: the entire waveform, not just the couple of cycles that fit on the scope screen. What's more, you can also choose to include the exact set of measurements that you're currently looking at, so when your collaborators view the waveform they're seeing exactly what you were seeing when you decided you needed some help. The result: problems get resolved faster, because the expert doesn't have to keep coming back and asking for another screenshot or additional details.

ScopeCo seems stuck in the idea that manually sending a screenshot of the waveform, along with a few comments that may or may not be meaningful or coherent, constitutes useful collaboration. We... disagree.

That's why M1 supports the ability to send waveforms via email or FTP from within M1. With the click of a button, your coworker halfway around the world and your boss two rooms over can be exploring the same waveform that you are: the entire waveform, not just the couple of cycles that fit on the scope screen. What's more, you can also choose to include the exact set of measurements that you're currently looking at, so when your collaborators view the waveform they're seeing exactly what you were seeing when you decided you needed some help. The result: problems get resolved faster, because the expert doesn't have to keep coming back and asking for another screenshot or additional details.

All-scope/all-digitizer/all-EDA

You have thousands of platforms from dozens of brands. Only one tool supports all of them.

M1 is the only waveform-handling software on the market designed to make every brand of scope, digitizer, and EDA simulation tool look good. Imagine your chip designers, debug and characterization engineers, and ATE platforms all using the same waveform-handling tools, enabling robust collaboration across your product's entire life cycle because everyone is speaking the same 'language.' With M1, there's no need to imagine.

M1 is the only waveform-handling software on the market designed to make every brand of scope, digitizer, and EDA simulation tool look good. Imagine your chip designers, debug and characterization engineers, and ATE platforms all using the same waveform-handling tools, enabling robust collaboration across your product's entire life cycle because everyone is speaking the same 'language.' With M1, there's no need to imagine.

Common data format, analysis engine, and UI

Stop losing time to incompatible file formats, algorithms, and interfaces from multiple manufacturers

M1 provides you with a common format for saving waveforms, a common analysis engine, and the same user interface regardless of the source of your waveforms. ScopeCo sees this as obscuring the brand of the hardware that's sending you the waveform, and ASA agrees. For them, that's a bad thing because it reveals their instrument for what it really is - just another commodity ADC platform for acquiring waveforms. But to the engineer trying to get some work done, not having to think about whose waveform-generation platform he happens to be using today - or was using last week - is a very good thing. Being able to correlate results across brands and platforms while not having to learn multiple interfaces is just icing on the cake.

M1 provides you with a common format for saving waveforms, a common analysis engine, and the same user interface regardless of the source of your waveforms. ScopeCo sees this as obscuring the brand of the hardware that's sending you the waveform, and ASA agrees. For them, that's a bad thing because it reveals their instrument for what it really is - just another commodity ADC platform for acquiring waveforms. But to the engineer trying to get some work done, not having to think about whose waveform-generation platform he happens to be using today - or was using last week - is a very good thing. Being able to correlate results across brands and platforms while not having to learn multiple interfaces is just icing on the cake.

Offline capability

Don't let the platform manufacturers tie you to the hardware

You probably can't afford to give every engineer their own personal scope or digitizer system. So the sooner that one person can finish their work and allow the next person use the hardware, the better. When you're doing heavy debug work though, you may only take a few acquisitions per hour due to the depth to which you need to analyze each waveform. Under the ScopeCo model, the hardware will be tied up for the entire three hours even though the actual acquisitions occupied less than 5 minutes of that time. This is because ScopeCo's add-ons are locked to the hardware, forcing you to do your analysis while sitting at an otherwise-idle instrument.

But ASA provides a very low-cost Reader that allows engineers outside of the lab to do anything M1 can do in the lab. M1 Reader™ allows waveform analysis, debug, etc. away from the device that provided the waveform, thanks to M1's common data format. This means that the debug engineer can take several acquisitions with a variety of settings in a matter of minutes, then take the saved waveforms back to his desk to do the real work, freeing up the hardware for someone else to use.

The result? More efficient use of your scarce/expensive hardware resources, making your engineers more productive. In large labs, you may even find you need fewer instruments, conserving your lab budget.

You probably can't afford to give every engineer their own personal scope or digitizer system. So the sooner that one person can finish their work and allow the next person use the hardware, the better. When you're doing heavy debug work though, you may only take a few acquisitions per hour due to the depth to which you need to analyze each waveform. Under the ScopeCo model, the hardware will be tied up for the entire three hours even though the actual acquisitions occupied less than 5 minutes of that time. This is because ScopeCo's add-ons are locked to the hardware, forcing you to do your analysis while sitting at an otherwise-idle instrument.

But ASA provides a very low-cost Reader that allows engineers outside of the lab to do anything M1 can do in the lab. M1 Reader™ allows waveform analysis, debug, etc. away from the device that provided the waveform, thanks to M1's common data format. This means that the debug engineer can take several acquisitions with a variety of settings in a matter of minutes, then take the saved waveforms back to his desk to do the real work, freeing up the hardware for someone else to use.

The result? More efficient use of your scarce/expensive hardware resources, making your engineers more productive. In large labs, you may even find you need fewer instruments, conserving your lab budget.

Waveform Reuse

Don't get stuck trying to recreate measurements

You know the story: a major customer is evaluating your part that came out a few years ago for their new design. But they're seeing some unusual behavior and claiming the problem must be with your part. So you're tasked with proving that your part is not to blame - and quickly. Because you use the manufactuer's simple add-ons and so had no efficient way of storing waveforms for later reuse, you need to scramble around. Where did we store the test fixtures for that part? Do we still have the same stimulus gear we used then? Who has the documentation on exactly how everything needs to be set up? It's a nightmare...

...or is it? Because you use M1, and so you've been able to easily and efficiently store every waveform that's ever been acquired, including all the waveforms from the characterization of that part. So you don't even need to go to the lab; you just start up M1 Reader at your desk, find and load the relevant waveform(s), and 15 minutes later you're printing out a detailed report proving that the unusual behavior reported by the customer certainly wasn't present when the part was characterized.

You know the story: a major customer is evaluating your part that came out a few years ago for their new design. But they're seeing some unusual behavior and claiming the problem must be with your part. So you're tasked with proving that your part is not to blame - and quickly. Because you use the manufactuer's simple add-ons and so had no efficient way of storing waveforms for later reuse, you need to scramble around. Where did we store the test fixtures for that part? Do we still have the same stimulus gear we used then? Who has the documentation on exactly how everything needs to be set up? It's a nightmare...

...or is it? Because you use M1, and so you've been able to easily and efficiently store every waveform that's ever been acquired, including all the waveforms from the characterization of that part. So you don't even need to go to the lab; you just start up M1 Reader at your desk, find and load the relevant waveform(s), and 15 minutes later you're printing out a detailed report proving that the unusual behavior reported by the customer certainly wasn't present when the part was characterized.

Collaborating with Customers and Vendors

Technology is a team sport. Play to win.

Sometimes you need to collaborate with a customer who's seeing a problem with your product or a vendor because you're seeing a problem with theirs. It would be great if you both used M1, as you could simply send complete waveforms saved in M1's Common Data Format for complete analysis on the other end using M1 Reader.

But even if the customer or vendor isn't an M1 user, you still don't need to fall back to the ScopeCo model of sending endless screenshots back and forth, or worse, having to pay to fly an engineer halfway across the country (or the world) to meet with the customer/vendor face-to-face in order to properly analyze their waveforms. The M1 Waveform Exchange (M1WE) program is here to help.

M1WE enables you to send that person a copy of M1 Waveform Capture (M1WC), a utility based on ASA's award-winning M1 Waveform Viewer. M1WC allows the recipient to capture data from any platform supported by M1 and send those complete waveforms to you for analysis. The data is even encrypted with a key unique to your M1WE license, ensuring confidentiality.

Sometimes you need to collaborate with a customer who's seeing a problem with your product or a vendor because you're seeing a problem with theirs. It would be great if you both used M1, as you could simply send complete waveforms saved in M1's Common Data Format for complete analysis on the other end using M1 Reader.

But even if the customer or vendor isn't an M1 user, you still don't need to fall back to the ScopeCo model of sending endless screenshots back and forth, or worse, having to pay to fly an engineer halfway across the country (or the world) to meet with the customer/vendor face-to-face in order to properly analyze their waveforms. The M1 Waveform Exchange (M1WE) program is here to help.

M1WE enables you to send that person a copy of M1 Waveform Capture (M1WC), a utility based on ASA's award-winning M1 Waveform Viewer. M1WC allows the recipient to capture data from any platform supported by M1 and send those complete waveforms to you for analysis. The data is even encrypted with a key unique to your M1WE license, ensuring confidentiality.